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Brain Game Time!

Game time is being cut in exchange for increased direct instruction time in reading and mathematics. But research shows that games actually nourish the brain—and one teacher uses them daily in her classroom.
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Tweeting for Change

Students organize and facilitate a live Twitter chat to raise awareness of an anti-bias theme or social justice issue and to encourage change related to this issue.
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6-8 9-12
February 25, 2016
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Georgia Garcia

Georgia Garcia is a professor of curriculum and instruction at the College of Education at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her research focuses on the literacy instruction of K-8 students from diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds, with a special interest in bilingual students' reading skills. She is also investigating cross-linguistic transfer in bilingual students' reading and writing (Spanish-English speakers and Chinese-English speakers), the literacy engagement and motivation of bilingual students and the use of new forms of literacy assessments with students from